King James Version Bibles
The Bentham Bible, Quarto
The Bentham Bible, Quarto
- Collection ID
- BIB.002888.1-.2
- Type
- Bible - Printed Book
- Date
- 1762
- Geography
- England
- Language
- English
- Medium
- Printed on Paper
- Dimensions
- Approximately 12.4 × 10 × 2.8 in. (31.5 × 25.5 × 7 cm)
- Exhibit Location
- On View in The History of the Bible, The King James Bible
The Bentham Bible of 1762 helped establish the standard text of the King James Bible still in use today. Joseph Bentham, printer for the University of Cambridge, used the revised text by F. S. Parris, who had worked over two decades before his death in 1760 to correct textual errors, modernize language, and refine the marginal notes and references. Bentham’s folio and quarto editions of 1762 would be used by Oxford scholar Benjamin Blayney, whose 1769 edition of the Bible developed Parris’s revisions further and would serve as the template for modern King James Bibles. This copy is a quarto edition bound in two volumes.
The Bentham Bible of 1762 helped establish the standard text of the King James Bible still in use today. Joseph Bentham, printer for the University of Cambridge, used the revised text by F. S. Parris, who had worked over two decades before his death in 1760 to correct textual errors, modernize language, and refine the marginal notes and references. Bentham’s folio and quarto editions of 1762 would be used by Oxford scholar Benjamin Blayney, whose 1769 edition of the Bible developed Parris’s revisions further and would serve as the template for modern King James Bibles. This copy is a quarto edition bound in two volumes.
Printed in 1762 by Joseph Bentham, Cambridge, England. Acquired by 2011 by David C. Lachman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Privately purchased in 2011 by Green Collection, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Donated in 2017 to National Christian Foundation (later The Signatry), under the curatorial care of Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC.[1]
[1] Volume II of this work remains in the Green Collection.
Printed in 1762 by Joseph Bentham, Cambridge, England. Acquired by 2011 by David C. Lachman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Privately purchased in 2011 by Green Collection, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Donated in 2017 to National Christian Foundation (later The Signatry), under the curatorial care of Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC.[1]
[1] Volume II of this work remains in the Green Collection.
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